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[muchmossymess]

A Revali Fanfic Recommendation

I urge you all to put your life on hold for a moment and go read this brilliant fanfiction:

A hundred years after the fall of Hyrule to Calamity Ganon, and the hero Link has finally sealed the darkness and freed the Divine Beasts of their curse - and with it, their pilots are finally free. But not just as spirits. Awake once again, the four Champions of old have a second chance at life and must re-adjust to this future world with their decendants. Well - all except for one Champion, who doesn't have a decentant. Or even anyone left alive that knew him. Teba is happy to take in his revived ancient idol as one of his own, but sharing a living space with a hundred year old Champion with an ego the size of his divine beast and who might have some issues he's not willing to share can be a lot sometimes and they don't always see eye to eye. Revali thinks he should return to leading the new generation of Rito warriors. Teba thinks this actual child should never have been leading warriors or fighting a war in the first place. Tulin is just excited to have the infamous Rito Champion in his house.

Beautifully written and lovingly crafted, this baby can fit so much trauma and whump into the most gut-wrenching and heat-breakingly found family story you may ever read. 130,000 words, 36 chapters (and still regularly updating!), and a CRIMINALLY low number of kudos. If that doesn't sway you, here is some gushing under the cut <3

You think you've read a champions revival fic before? This will have you saying "how the FUCK have I not seen this before" and completely change the way you view everything (mild exaggeration. m i l d). We have all of your favourite revali tropes: being a dick and getting owned, being a dick and being right, getting own and never showing those feelings to the light of day, getting killed, getting unkilled and loved, showing emotions but being super weird and revali about it, bonding with tulin!!, bonding with teba and the rest of rito village, bonding with the champions, having panic attacks and trauma, vah medoh being the best ever, being a terrifying force of nature, being an idiot kid, and so much more!

Do you like grumpy dad teba? Do you like revali swallowing his pride? Do you like revali immediately spitting his pride back up and being a bitchy bird? Do you like mipha and revali as gossip buddies? Do you like the complete and utter fool revali makes of himself everytime he so much as hears the name link? Do you like people seeing right through his facade and calling him out on it?

AND NOT TO MENTION THE WORLD BUILDING??? this fic is so in depth of the political climates, racism, lore, changes in culture during times of war, colonisation, biology of the races and just fucking everything?? It adds so much life to the world of hyrule I am genuinely shocked at how much this person clearly loves these games (botw/totk/aoc) and they are able to incorporate all of this amazing information in a way that flows so naturally and just hhrnngngg I am fucking insane about it. THE SCIENCE, oh my god how did I forget all the wonderous thoughts surrounding the divine beasts and the sheikah tech, oh god and how they write the magic system? Guys I swear it's so good.

Characterisation is on point, everyone feels so full of life and that they are reacting exactly how you would expect them too, and they just seem so real, like they are right beside you as you're reading. The author does an IMMACULATE job of drawing you in and making you feel a part of the story, all the while being just beautifully written?

Don't get me started on the attention to rito culture. I have never seen someone pour so much love into something before, genuinely on of the greatest things I've seen. I've always had a fascination over how the races of hyrule view each other, similarities and differences, how their cultures and histories intertwine, and conflicts that may arise. But oh. my. god. My jaw was on the floor every time, it's so rich and beautiful but not without the horrors (and oh god, they are Horrors tm) and again it's just so real!!!

Be warned, however, that there is gore and viscera and terror and hurt and war crimes and death (duh), but for each terrible thing to happen it is repaid tenfold in love and kindness somewhere down the line. (Unless you are into hurt no comfort, then sorry buddy!) It is a beautiful narrative and the exploration of trauma and self is mind boggling and just go read it!!! 😭 😭 😭 I just love this fic so much, it has instantly sky-rocketed to one of my top 3 favourite fics I've ever read, and I'm so grateful to have found it and now be along for the ride that if I could bring that to one more person then by god I will fucking do it

[pine-needle-shuffle]

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[pepperonitowerask]

Another 3-month hiatus, I hope you're not going through anything serious. I know from personal experience that depression hits like a brick. Now my question: opinions on the Noise Update?

((Nothing Serious, just *Seriously Busy* hah. There has been *zero* room in my life for working on an askblog, buuuuuut…

((I do have an original project in the works :-)!

((OH AND THE NOISE UPDATE ROCKS i love love love the new soundtrack additions

[bladeofthebookworms]

Whew, I'm so glad I got it done in time!! Here's my entry for bahbahhh's DTIYS! Shoutout to the absolutely amazing #thedepthsau that this incredibly talented creator did for Linktober this year! @bahbahhh, thank you so much for sharing your talents with us; your Linktober this year was such a fun thing to see each day, and I am so, SO excited for the continuation! You're amazing!!

[desultory-novice]

[Rec Links Mentioned During the Stream!]

Bandanna Waddle Dee Comic by Nora [a must read!!!]

Seriously, everyone read this whole thing right now. It's done without words and it is just... amazing!! The art will blow you away it's soooo good. And the story is really touching/powerful too!

Warnings: Has some scary elements / angst / character death

[More ...Problematic... Links Below >.>]

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I CANNOT recommend these to everyone, but both of them have some ideas that Dess is very fond of. (Both are written in Japanese.)

Ruto's Magic-Sharing Marxolor fanfic: "The Hungry Magician and the Gear Wizard"

Warnings: Marxolor; R-18 (and adjacent) content!! (Please obey the rules and don't read any of the stories marked R-18 if you're under age! I do not want to get any authors nor minors in trouble! To be perfectly honest, due to how the magic-sharing is written, I would recommend not reading this at all if you aren't 18...!)

Marx and Magolor have a complicated "I like you but I don't like (having to rely on) you" relationship that involves the transference of magic power back and forth to keep Marx fed and Magolor's magic working; this exchange is ostensibly sexless but is written pre~tty much like a sex scene ^^; (there is some kissing etc involved too)

I'm mostly linking this not because I recommend any of my readers attempt to read it (unless you're REALLY into the ideas above) but because the author's HC of how Marx and Magolor individually interact with/view magic and exchange it is just...super fascinating to me and I want to see more magic-share Marxolor as a concept!  ; _ ;  (There's also some delicious Post-Crown angst in the beginning!)

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Amajo(?) Mitsuru's MaruKabi Gijinka Comic: "Ultra Super Paradox"

Warnings: Marx x Kirby; female Kirby in a short skirt; there's some age hijinks going on with Marx (!) but the Marx that falls in love with Kirby is her age and their relationship remains entirely chaste; a few (unfortunate) fan-service-y shots; one page hot springs scene with the female Meta Knights; skinny twink Dedede (-_-); character death

In spite of it's issues, I really like this comic and it had major influences on my fandom writing (despite the fact that I write these two as just friends, myself) I particularly love Marx and Kirby's journey from "What's up with this reality? A second ago, we were fighting to the death?!" to friends to two people who truly love each other; plus I thought the author managed to string all the Super Star scenarios together in a compelling way... even Gourmet Race!!

[waywardsalt]

they shouldve put bellum in ssbu as a spirit. come on

[puppetmaster13u]

Re: white collar crossover (and the bats pretending to be cryptids)

You might like this series

https://archiveofourown.org/series/3611860

Oh I love that series! For those who want the link:

[localicecreambiter]

I'll say it here but THANK YOU!! That drawing took me over 36 hours so I really appreciate the love! I also love your idea of Wild using stasis on Winds pictobox! I will say originally in my mind it was Malon taking the photo while the boys are at the Ranch but I love your idea better

OF COURSE!!! It's SUCH an amazing piece, and it deserves so much more recognition than it's getting. 36 hours is a lot to put into a piece, but it was well worth it because oh my god it looks so so good :D stay proud

(Malon taking the picture makes a lot more sense, but the image of wind and wild fiddling with the pictobox for a good five minutes while telling her they have it handled as they fail to time the picture right is too funny)

[witchysolfan]

Hey, sorry to bother, but "the phantom painter" uses Ai to make their works

God damn it

Welp they on my blacklist now

Thanks for the heads up

[1moreoffkeyanthem]

Y’all I’m actually screaming the homie AlwaysInSTYLE on ao3 (we gotta get this gorl on tumblr) WROTE ME A GIFT CHAPTER of her kickass fic and it is essentially

Fanfiction of my fanfiction !!!!! Literally it’s an OrangeJuiceVerse variant! Like FUCKING MOOSE IS THERE?!?!! Kyle’s Bitchass Knee™️?!?!? Kenny making life alert jokes?! VETERINARIAN STAN?!? Oh my shit!

And references to one of my other AU’s I did a while back (And The Lightning Cracks The Sky) with fucking FIREFIGHTER STAN?!? And a forest fire!? And it opens up with a red tailed hawk!!!

ALSO she wrote me into the story as the doctor lmfao THE SCREAM I SCRUMT!!!

Aight so here’s a link to the chapter in question ALSO totally check out the whole book if you’re a style enjoyer, each chapter is a oneshot across various aus and it’s deadass JUST Stan and Kyle taking care of each other (my favorite shit ever) I LOVE EACH AND EVERY CHAPTER if you check it out tell her PCE sent ya ✌🏻

[yewstronaut]

I finished all of The Property of Hate in one day like idk two, three days ago and i desperately need to be able to read it from the beginning for the first time again

[indigostars]

i know scamming is a huge thing and people need to be extremely careful on unknown links but it’s really hard to take anything seriously when i get an email like once a week from some variation of majesticrhinos7843@meowmeowz.com

[no-schedule-crepescule]

If you are a Jojo fan and also happens to own twitter, please check out https://twitter.com/TDDK_Art

Their fan animations are god tier and do yourself a favor and grace your eyes upon them.

[pricklythepear]

Of course! Your the person that made me start interacting with fandom instead of just lurking!

Your fics, especially Wild’s, give a new perspective or depth that I haven’t seen with other people, and in such a well written way; you are an amazing example of ‘Show, don’t Tell’ that still so clearly shows the characters and their thoughts.

You breathe such life into these characters, it gives them definition I hadn’t even thought was missing. You are an amazing writer, and amazing friend, and I am so happy to have gotten to meet you online <3

That feeling tho when you find that fic writer that just absolutely fucking

understands the characters to their core

writes so well they–just so–they just—their writing is—-THEY WRITE GOOD

shatters your bad mood with a new update

writes a fic that you can read over again and still clutch at your heart like HOLY SHIT I FUCKING LOVE–I LOVE THIS FIC

writes a scene that has you all giddy in public and that one random stranger asks you like “ooo you are smiling :) :) is that a boy :) you are talking to :)” and you’re like “no I’m reading a Everybody Lives/Nobody Dies AU, please leave”

understands and portrays the characters better than the people who make MOVIES with those characters

amazing. just amazing. fic writers are awesome

[seven-thewanderer]

…why is this so long

[avaantares]

Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!